Hunnert Car Heads Up Goes Down This Weekend at Great Lakes Dragaway!
This weekend at the historic Great Lakes Dragaway in Union Grove, Wisconsin, the Chrome Czars Car Club will host the third annual “Hunnert Car Heads-Up” nostalgia drag race. The event is...
Dyno Carnage Video: A Factory Transfer Case Goes Kablooey At Big RPM
As we were watching the awesome Norwegian hill climb video yesterday, we got to thinking about what transmissions and transfer cases these dudes were running. Well, believe it or not, some of them...
World’s Coolest Late 1970’s Street Machine ‘Cuda Getting Prepped to See Street Duty Again!
For years we have heard stories about a wild ‘Cuda that hit the New England scene in the late 1970s wearing a paint scheme that was unparalleled for the time. The stories seemed so wild that...
Caption This Photo: Y’all Ain’t From ‘Round Here, Are Ya?
As the fun and frivolity continue on the 2011 Hot Rod Power Tour, we’re getting some funny photos from the road. In this snap, BangShift member Willstoy is seen chatting with some of the locals...
Bitchin’ Video: 2011 Norwegian Formula Off Road Hill Climb Action
We’ve shown you killer video from the wild Norwegian Formula Off Road Hillclimb events before, but this one could be the best yet. Filmed at what appears to be the most recent event, which was...
Project FatCad Update 4: The CTS-V Wagon Weighs In and Starts Shedding Pounds!
FatCad Installment 1 FatCad Installment 2 FatCad Installment 3 In order to make this as fair a test as possible, every time I weigh the car I’m going to fill up the gas tank...
eBay Find: The Titanium Basis for the Biggest and Coolest LSR Belly Tanker Ever!
While it wouldn’t be the most aerodynamic object to start with, this 15ft tall (or long) titanium tank would certainly be one of the coolest and most expensive pieces to start an LSR project...
Mexican Officials Raid Narco-Tank Factory, Seize Biggest One Yet
Since we first learned of the newest wrinkle in the Mexican drug cartel wars, the so called “narco-tanks”, we’ve been poking and prodding the interwebs for more info. Surely, the...
Car Show Gallery: The 2011 Fleetwood County Cruize-In – Ontario, Canada
Canadian BangShifter Ed Nicholson recently attended the 2011 Fleetwood County Cruize-In, which is one of Canada’s largest car shows. Junk weather surpressed some of the crowd this year, but...
Kill Video: Blown Z06 Vette Walks A Million Dollar Koenigsegg at Russian One-Mile Drags
Here’s a neat clip that has been making a hot lap around the internet over the last couple days. It features a crazed one mile long drag racing event, held in Russia. The event has been going...
Roadside Find: A Totally Bitchin’ 1962 Willys Jeep Truck
As cool as the 1971 Cougar XR7 was that we saw the other day, we nearly passed out from the coolness radiating from the 1962 Willy Jeep truck we found later that day. Sitting for sale at the end of a...
Video: The Most Violent and Painful Automotive Magic Fail Ever
We’ll warn you that this video is pretty violent and shocking. The dude playing the role of failed magician is lucky to be alive, although we’ve read that he suffered multiple injuries,...
Hot Rod Power Tour 2011 Guerilla Coverage: BS Member Photos From the Road
BangShift member Bishir has been sending in random photos from his week on the 2011 Hot Rod Power Tour and it looks like he and the rest of the BangShifters are having a riot (as usual!) on tour!...
Cool Video: The 1965 LA Times Grand Prix – Featuring Can-Am Action and Some of the Greatest Drivers Ever
We found a great piece of video to cap off today. The nearly 15-minute film is a look at the 1965 LA Times Grand Prix, held at the long dead Riverside Raceway in California. Riverside was a road...
